Summary: career
diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador under the Carter
administration who concluded that El Salvadoran government death squads
had been complicit in the crimes and conveyed his suspicions to the
U.S. State Department after four American human rights churchwomen,
including three nuns, were abducted, raped, and murdered in the capital
city of San Salvador in 1980, but the U.S. was supporting the military
government in El Salvador in its struggle against leftist
revolutionaries, and who was recalled and forced out of the Foreign
Service after his suspicions about the deaths were later confirmed.